American Indian Studies

Illustrations - Ron Welburn: Foreword - Dane Morrison: Preface - Publisher's Note - Acknowledgments - IN THE WORLD - I. History, Language, Identity - Dane Morrison: "In Whose Hands Is the Telling of the Tale?" - Sally Midgette - The Native Languages of North America: Structure and Survival - Debra K. S. Barker Kill the Indian, Save the Child: Cultural Genocide and the Boarding School - RECIAIMING POWER - II. Educational Strategies - Wayne J. Stein: American Indian Education - Jon Reyhner: The Case for Native American Studies - William Asikinack: Why Native American Studies? A Canadian First Nations Perspective - III. Economic Survival - Country Miriam R. Jorgensen: Taking up the Challenge: Fundamental Principles of Economic Development in Indian - Wayne J. Stein: American Indians and Gambling: Economic and Social Impacts - Pauleena MacDougall: Native American Industry: Basket Weaving among the Wabanaki - IV. Spirit and Power - Ross Enochs: The Catholic Missions to the Native Americans - Gabrielle A. Tayac: Stolen Spirits: An Illustrative Case of Indigenous Survival Through Religious Freedom - Eric Mazur: "The Supreme Law of the Land": Sources of Conflict between Native Americans and the Constitutional Order" - PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS - V. Voices and Words - Robert M. Nelson: Place, Vision, and Identity in Native American Literatures - Irene Moser: Native American Imaginative Spaces - Tom Matchie Building on the Myth: Recovering Native American Culture in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace - Laura Browder: "What Does It Tell Us That We Are So Easily Deceived? Impostor Indians - VI. Images and Icons - Jane Frazier: Tomahawkin' the Redskins: "Indian" Images in Sports and Commerce - Ellen L. Arnold: Reframing the Hollywood Indian: A Feminist Re-reading of Powwow Highway and Thunderheart - Mary Alice Money: Broken Arrows: Images of Native Americans in the Popular Western - "A Usable Indian": The Current Controversy in Museums - Dan L. Monroe: The Politics of Repatriation - Karen Coody Cooper: Museums and American Indians: Ambivalent Partners - Contributors - Index.